Articles tagged with 'france'

This map shows the accumulation of all the passages made by the Hallberg-Rassy 54 sailing yacht, Feelin' Good, from the time she was launched in July 2011 right up through her final passage in July 2012. Her travels have taken her from Sweden through the Kiel Canal in Germany, along the coast of Holland and Belgium and through the English Channel to the Bay of Biscay. From there, she...

This map shows the accumulation of all the passages made by the Hallberg-Rassy 54 sailing yacht, Feelin' Good, from the time she was launched in July 2011 to her arrival in southern Spain in September 2011. Her travels have taken her from Sweden through the Kiel Canal in Germany, along the coast of Holland and Belgium and through the English Channel to the Bay of Biscay.

Finally, we were able to depart Ile de Re and this time decided to see if we could make it all the way to Santander, Spain. The storm broke one of the rubber pieces on the anchor snubber line and bent the hook attached to the anchor chain pretty badly too. As we rounded the northern corner of Ile de Re and started out in the Bay of Biscay again we encountered some Atlantic rollers...

Had a false start leaving Ile de Houat as we headed out only to find beating windward in 30 kts of wind was not something we wanted to do for the next 14 hours. We went back to our anchorage for another night and started out the next day determined to make up for lost time. We planned our passage all the way to Arcachon but about half way down the French coast we got another imminent...